Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.